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John Jolet wrote: |
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>>Basically I have a network back home with a couple Gentoo systems |
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>>connected and I'd like to have ssh (and maybe vnc) access to them from |
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>>my Gentoo laptop no matter where I am. What do you think? |
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> if you just need ssh, you don't need a vpn, just a port forward on your |
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> router. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. |
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Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to |
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provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works |
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fine for me. |
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# ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 username@××××××××.tld |
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# vncviewer localhost:0 |
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Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk |
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~ www.djnauk.co.uk |
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2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz |
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up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.68, 0.87, 0.33 |
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"People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a |
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movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you |
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play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay." |
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~ Perry King |
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